I’m sitting in the waiting room at Jerome’s while they do an oil change and try to get to the bottom of the “check engine” indictor that went on while we were driving back from New York. The mechanics usually have right wing radio on in the back but it sounds like AC/DC this morning. But maybe that’s coming from one of the nearby shops. The old PCI Studios is right next door and Elite Bakery was right next door to PCI. I grew up on Brookfield, a few blocks away, and this area always feels like home to me.
I tried to help my painting teacher with his computer yesterday and I’m still recovering from that. His machine was top of the line in 2000 but it is now worth $72 used. I looked it up. The dvd writer, not a combo drive but one that could only write dvds, still reads dvds but it doesn’t recognize blanks. Could it be the new dvds have too fast a write speed for the old writer? I decided to order a new IDE combo drive, $32 plus shipping from Other World Computing. In addition The Daily Show and PBS both have changed the way they stream Flash content and his old browsers could no longer play content form those sites because the newest Flash plug-in is not compatible with his system. I found someone online who had hacked the plug-in so I installed the hacked version and it seems to work for now. Last thorny problem was his system continually asking him for his keychain password. An insatiable demand. I killed that.
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Cmon, he needs a new computer. Why waste your and his time screwing around with truly ancient technology?